ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,366, issued on March 24.
"Robotic transfer device and related method" was invented by Pritam Kumar Sarkar (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic transfer device is an unmanned vehicle carrying an articulated body that can load, unload, and transport a payload. The configuration of the articulated body is such that one of the degrees of freedom is along a vertical axis so that it can lift a payload from the bottom. At the tip, the articulated body has a roller bed which can be moved up or down with or without a payload. When the rollers rotate about their own axes, the payload moves linearly along the direction of motion p...